Met Gala 2016: Celebrities flaunt high style and high tech

Karolina Kurkova wears a "cognitive" dress created by Marchesa and IBM at the Met Gala on May 2, 2016. The dress changed colors in response to the tone of Twitter comments. Photo Credit: Getty Images / Dimitrios Kambouris

The A-est of A-list celebrities, models and socialites hit the Met Gala red carpet Monday night in high style—and high tech—celebrating “Manus x Machina: Fashion in an Age of Technology,” the new exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute.

As for the men, Elba (perhaps the next 007?) looked Bond-worthy in Tom Ford. Rapper Wiz Khalifa was cool in cream. And only will.i.am could pull off a face visor. (Seriously, Will, pull it off.)

Most “illuminating?” Karolina Kurkova, in a “cognitive dress” by Marchesa and IBM. Embedded with LED lights and IBM’s Watson technology, the gown changed colors in response to the tone of Twitter comments at the Met.

Marchesa’s Keren Craig called it “something almost living and breathing.” And perhaps a sign of high-tech styles to come.